Re: CCCleaner

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  FWiW... From the prior thread, I decided to & downloaded, then 
ran the CCleaner.  For the Registry it has a "Scan for Issues" and 
then the list of "issues" is presented; every entry\issue is 
pre-checked for "cleaning".  Simply uncheck any in the list that 
give concerns for their loss [I left several], and then click the 
"Fix selected issues" button; scanning again shows those same 
entries that were previously unchecked.

  CCleaner is much prettier and has IMO, a safer-feel than other 
registry cleaners that I have used in the past [two, but I do not 
recall names of either; I uninstalled each, immediately after use, 
whereas I have left CCleaner on my system].  Although the software 
enabled a "backup registry first?" option, I chose to instead use 
the Start->Run->regedit for its [OS] backup feature before running 
the CCleaner.

John Jones wrote:
> CCleaner gives the option to back up the entries before they are 
> deleted. I always take that option. By default it names the file 
> CC_dateandtime.reg so you can re-import them easily (right-click
> and open/import) should a problem occur.
>
> I think what CCleaner is going after are orphans more than 
> anything else. References to objects that no exist and that sort
> of thing.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Carmen Nuland wrote:
>
> > I've used CCleaner in the past to clean up temporary files, but
> >  how *safe* is it to let it clean up Registry problems? I'm
> > sure I would want to backup the registry first (or does it ask
> > you that?). I'm especially curious about the Client Access
> > "issues" it found. Other Windows programs aren't always good at
> > knowing that CA is a legitimate software program, so I'd hate
> > for it to remove vital registry entries.